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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted De Novo marketing authorization to Abbott for its Libre Duo 10 Day system, establishing the new integrated continuous glucose and ketone monitoring (iCGK) regulatory benchmark alongside standard iCGM status.Libre Duo monitors glucose and continuously tracks rising ketones in the background to prevent diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a critical emergency for which U.S. hospital admissions have increased by 55% over the
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HIMSS Signs Historic MOUs at HIMSS26 APAC to Measure AI Value and Accelerate Malaysia’s ‘1 Person, 1 Record’
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At the HIMSS26 APAC Health Conference & Exhibition in Singapore (co-hosted with SingHealth), HIMSS executed two major Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) and a national digital health maturity partnership.Establishes the HIMSS AI Outcomes Framework, the world’s first evidence-based, longitudinal standard for measuring the clinical, operational, and financial impact and ROI of healthcare artificial intelligence.Founding healthcare provider partners contributing
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Fitbit Founders Unveil Luffu Link, Wearable for Family Health, Safety and Connection
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Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman have officially unveiled Luffu Link, a screenless, jewelry-inspired LTE health and safety wearable designed specifically for family caregiving and aging in place.Luffu Link marks the first hardware device in a broader ecosystem spanning the Luffu smartphone app (introduced in February 2026 and currently in public beta), the wristband, and an upcoming dedicated in-home display device slated for later this year.Addresses the
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PatientPoint Releases 2026 Patient Confidence Index on Healthcare Anxiety, Provider Trust, and AI
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PatientPoint® released the findings of its fifth annual Patient Confidence Index, conducted in partnership with Talker Research among 2,000 U.S. adults who attended a medical appointment within the past year.Rising Systemic Anxiety vs. High Provider Trust: 43% of respondents reported increased healthcare anxiety over the past year—driven by care affordability (54%), inflation (41%), and policy changes (39%)—causing 47% of patients to delay preventive care.Despite broad
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Juno Health Integrates SlicedHealth to Deliver Native Revenue Intelligence for Rural Hospitals
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Juno Health announced a strategic partnership with SlicedHealth to offer SlicedHealth’s revenue cycle and operations intelligence tools as a fully integrated, included complement to Juno EHR’s native revenue cycle management (RCM) suite.The partnership specifically targets rural hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), delivering advanced revenue protection and contract intelligence tools historically reserved for large health systems.SlicedHealth brings proven
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M&A: Switchboard Health Acquires Livara Health and Secures $5M to Power In-EHR Virtual MSK Delivery
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Switchboard Health, a digital health platform connecting patients with high-value specialty care, has acquired Livara Health (formerly SpineZone), a virtual-first orthopedics and musculoskeletal (MSK) management company.In conjunction with the acquisition, Switchboard Health closed an oversubscribed $5M+ equity funding round backed by First Trust Capital Partners, LLC, Route 66 Ventures, A1 Health Ventures, Allumia Ventures, and Martin Ventures.The transaction marks
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Memorial Hermann Makes Strategic Investment in PartsSource to Optimize Medical Equipment Lifecycles
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PartsSource, a clinical technology performance and asset management platform, announced a strategic investment from Memorial Hermann Health System, one of the largest non-profit health systems in Southeast Texas.PartsSource provides an enterprise operating system for Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) that unifies medical equipment parts procurement, maintenance service, contract management, asset intelligence, and clinical engineering workforce capacity.The platform
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PGxAI Announces Andromeda Precision Prescribing Platform Is Qualified on Mayo Clinic Platform
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PGxAI, an AI-native precision medicine company specializing in personalized prescribing and human drug-metabolism intelligence, announced that its Andromeda clinical decision-support platform is now a Qualified Solution on Mayo Clinic Platform.The qualification via Mayo Clinic Platform's Solutions Studio provides PGxAI with a structured framework for provider-led evaluation, algorithmic validation, clinical workflow integration, and deployment readiness across health
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Vexev Raises $6M to Scale Autonomous Robotic Vascular Ultrasound
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Australian medical robotics and computational imaging startup Vexev raised $6M in new funding, bringing its total capital raised to date to $19M.The capital will support FDA 510(k) regulatory clearance, domestic manufacturing scale-up, and commercial launch in the United States for VxWave, its autonomous robotic tomographic ultrasound platform.VxWave combines precision robotics, artificial intelligence, and proprietary ultrasound signal processing to automate upper-limb
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DCAI and Corti Launch Sovereign AI Control Layer on Gefion Supercomputer
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The Danish Center for AI Innovation (DCAI) and clinical AI lab Corti have launched Corti Models, a governed, model-agnostic infrastructure layer providing European enterprises with sovereign control over AI deployments, data security, and compliance.The platform provides an OpenAI-compatible API supporting sovereign cloud and on-premises environments, allowing organizations to route workloads to leading foundation models without rewriting existing SDK integrations or
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